---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Aubrey Parker
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 18
number: 3
published: 1915-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Aubrey Parker, "My Babe," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 3 (January 1915): 246.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1803unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1803unse
start_page: 246
end_page: 246
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1803unse
  publication_year: 1915
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# My Babe

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246                         IMPROVEMENT KRA
which were in his path, and where he now sees the world »as one
vast plain, with one endless reach of sky.
     As he stands upon the mountain peak of "Success" he breathes
the pure air of God's fresh sunshine.      He stretches out his arms
to his God and with his lips he says, "I thank God that I have
withstood the trials and temptations of youth, and that I have now
reached untainted and unsoiled, a pure and noble manhood, which
is the greatest of all successes."

     The paths which lead to success in this world, and in the
world to come, are not easy but, young men, tread them firmly
                                     ;

and bravely, and with unfaltering heart; and as your reward yoti
will surely pluck the fruits of success, and you will then be able
to thank God all the clays of your life.
LOGAK,   I'taii

                                   My Babe
                  Another life to us     is   given;
                  A "life," a soul first fresh from Heaven,
                  Another "Breath of God" enshrined in clay
                  Sent here to grow and flourish in its day.

                  A laughing soul born in "the Light,"
                  To send a radiant ray and banish night;
                  From a world all torn with shame and sin;
                  To see the Great Millennium ushered in.
                  As pure as a lily blown in the sun,
                  May it be as pure when its "Sands" are run,
                  The "Wedding G"ment" may she don
                  When the "Crown of Victory's" won.
                  Then shall this "Soul" placed in my care,
                  Be a blessing sent to help me bear
                  The trials sore that beset my path.
                  For "Gifts" are given to "him that hath:"

                  To "him that hath" it shall be given
                  Crowns and Kingdoms, the Real Estate of Heaven;
                  Be it said of me when I am dead
                  That "Crowns and Glories are on his head."
                                                               Aubrey Pakkeb
shelley, idaho